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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terrence Brannon
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:09 AM
> To: General forum
> Subject: [Jgeneral] a brief insight - why the verb '{' has
> zero left rank and infinite right rank
>
> If you look through the processing of
> 2 4 { 3 1 4 1 5 9
>
> it becomes clear why the ranks of '{' were so chosen.
Your subsequent analysis is correct, but perhaps not
this statement.
When x in x { y is boxed, it allows much more complex
processing (you'll get to that later). Since boxes are
atoms, { applies each box of x individually, hence is
left rank 0.
The case when x is not boxed is a special case, but the
verb still has the left rank 0.
Henry Rich
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